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Quote by Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it til

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G.K. Chesterton

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Is a stolen copyright a copywrong? – Anonymous

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[G]usto thrives on freedom, and freedom in art, as in life, is the result of a discipline imposed by ourselves. Moreover, any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. – Marianne Moore (1887–1972), lecture, 1948

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. – Lord Byron

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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. – Karen Armstrong

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You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. – Will Rogers

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. – Jean de la Bruyere

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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps

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